Łukasz Żal

Lukasz Zal is an Academy Award nominated cinematographer. He most recently was a DoP on Pawel Pawlikowski’s COLD WAR, which won the Best Director Award at Cannes Film Festival and was an official polish Oscar candidate in the Best Foreign Film category. COLD WAR landed Lukasz Zal the Silver Frog Award for cinematography at the 2018 Camerimage Festival in Poland, as well as the American Society of Cinematographers Award, Polish Society of Cinematographers Award, London Critics’ Circle Film Awards and Bafta nomination.

Lukasz was nominated for the Academy Award twice: in 2016 for IDA (dir. P. Pawlikowski) and in 2019 for COLD WAR (dir. P Pawlikowski). Lukasz was also one of the two cinematographers of an Oscar nominated animation LOVING VINCENT (dir. Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman) in 2017.

Cinematographer on DOVLATOV (dir. Aleksiej German Jr.), which premiered at the Berlinale 2018 and THE HERE AFTER (dir. Magnus von Horn), which premiered at Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Directors’ Fortnight) at Cannes Film Festival in 2015.

In 2019 Lukasz started working with Charlie Kaufman on his film „I’m Thinking of Ending Things”. The premiere is scheduled to 2020.

Lukasz is a Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, European Film Academy and Polish Society of Cinematographers.

He currently lives in Poland with his wife and son.

Awards

COLD WAR

2019 Oscar (Academy Award) nomination in the category Best Cinematography

2015 Oscar (Academy Award) nomination in the category: Best Cinematography

2015 BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award) nomination in the category: Cinematography

2014 San Francisco (The San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards) Award in the category: Cinematography

2014 Eagle (Polish Film Award) nomination in the category: Cinematography

2014 Eagle (Polish Film Award) nomination in the category: Discovery of the year

2014 PSC Award (Society of Cinematographers)

2014 European Film Award (formerly Felix) Award in the category: Best Cinematography

2014 Bucharest (Medias Central European Film Festival) Award for cinematography for the ‘composition and black-and-white cinematography, which allow for a better understanding of the family tragedy of the young woman and her struggle in a ruthless world’

2014 ASC Spotlight Award

2013 Warsaw (Jewish Film Festival) Award for Best Cinematography

2013 Minsk (Listapad International Film Festival) Award for cinematography

2013 Gdynia (Gdynia Film Festival) Award for cinematography

2013 Bydgoszcz (Plus Camerimage International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography) Golden Frog in the Main Competition

THE HERE AFTER

2016 PSC Award (Society of Cinematographers) Nomination

ICON

2017 IMAGO International Awards for Cinematography, Award: Best Cinematography in Documentary films